castor troy
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Joined: 8/23/2004 From: Austria Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: John 3rd You guys have no idea how fun it is for me to wake up, check the AAR and find that it has gone up 50-60 hits since I going to bed. It is fun to know that a lot of people are enjoying my impending doom. TRUST ME--you will be rewarded with one heck of a swan song at the end of 1944! As to Bigbaba's question regarding CAP over Japan. I should note that most of my army fighters are now back down to terrible experience. Most are in the 50s now. Only way to counter that is with numbers over the target. I have about 50% of my fighters flying CAP 90% and the remaining 50% flying LRCAP Range 2. This is effective in that nearly all of Dan's attacks go against the towns between Osaka--Toyama--Tokyo. It has helped on Dan's multiple wave attacks. His 3rd Wave is almost always without fighter escort and IF I can field a decent number of fighters for that attack I get pretty good results. Castor was correct to bring to my attention the radar upgrade. Though I have so-so pilots I am not getting bounced as often. Vettim mentions a discussion of victory conditions on Dan's AAR. This has been my basic fear for the last year. He has been so fixated on how far down he was, then getting even, and now way ahead that I fear he won't try to finish me off. He will just rely on his strategic bombers, sit back, and wait for the clock to run out. That thought drives me nuts. I am playing to win. Even when I have lost I play to win. Just witness events in about 4-6 weeks of gametime... John, you can´t win anymore! Seriously, the question of winning at this stage of the game can IMO only be asked in how does the situation look like in mid 45. Is it better for the Japanese than real life - then I would say YOU won, is it the same - then I would say it´s a DRAW, is it worse than in real life or is it a totally hopeless situation earlier than in real life - then I would say DAN won. For me, the autovictory by points is nice, but not what should determine who wins. Of course the pure feeling who really won can only be agreed by the two players themselve I guess (with some feedback from the AAR contributors), this shouldn´t be a problem with someone that has played you for months/years and therefore was an honorable opponent. Even if Dan sits back and doesn´t do much more than bombing Japan, if he succeeds in more or less totally destroying Japan´s industrial potential then IMO he won, no matter if you still hold the Philipines for example, or the Solomons, or some Pacific atolls. If your industrial output is down to 15-20% then who really cares if you hold Formosa? If you only see 2 out of 100 merchants return to Japan after being sent into the SRA to pick up oil/resources/supply then who cares if you still own Borneo? You did a very good job in this campaign, hats off Sir, but IMO at the moment you´re struggling to avoid defeat. Why? Becasue the B-29, B-24, P-38 and P-51 are more and more bringing Dan into a war winning position.
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